Ilya wrote: > The amount of protein in butter IS trace. If you honestly believe that > this isn't so, then you definitely have a court case on your hands as > butter is labeled 0 protein (which basically means <1g). > If you are going to insist that I am still wrong please back it up > with facts. Dear Ilya, You seem to enjoy analogies. The average female (human) produces 500,000 nanograms of ESTROGEN per day. That is approximately 1/2000th of a gram. Can I then conclude that women have no estrogen? Protein hormones work on a nano-molecular basis...just like the hallucinogenic substance, LSD, it does not take much to produce an enormous effect. One 12 ounce glass of milk contains 3000 nanograms of IGF-I, our most powerful growth hormone. Drink that glass of milk and you double the existing levels of IGF-I naturally present (and unbound) in the average adult body. IGF-I is identical (70 amino acids/same gene sequence) in humans and cows. It is the only hormone among 4000 mammals (hundreds of thousands of hormones) that I am aware of as being identical. Butter is concentrated milk. More than 80 compounds have been identified in butter. Thes include protein hormones, alcohol, aldehydes, esters of various acids, lactones and sulpher compounds. For more information please refer to MODERN DAIRY PRODUCTS - Composition and Food Value by Lincoln M. Lampert, Third Edition, Chemical Publishing Company, 1996, New York, ISBN# 0-8206-0230-2, cHAPTER 18, Pages 292-314. Robert "NOTMILKMAN" Cohen http://www.notmilk.com